Grace Gutowski, Giovanna Mantuano and Macy Huber all placed in the top five and Paul VI rolled to its first Olympic Conference title since 2020 Wednesday in Logan Township.

Cherry Hill East Addison Weiss was the overall winner, covering 5,000 meters at DREAM Park in a course-record 17:46, but Gutowski was 2nd in 18:27, Mantuano 3rd in 18:34 and Huber 5th in 18:44 as PVI – ranked 9th in New Jersey – scored just 31 points in defeating two other top-10 teams, Cherry Hill East [46 points] and Cherokee [61].

Weiss, who ran 17:53 at DREAM Park earlier this month at the South Jersey Open, No. 2 in course history, broke the course record of 17:52 set at the 2018 South Jersey Shootout by Shawnee’s Isabella Turner.

Weiss, a 1st-year XC runner, has placed in the top three in every invitational she’s competed in this fall – 3rd at the Battle of Ocean Park and Shore Coaches and 1st in the South Jersey Open and Olympic Conference. She’s undefeated against South Jersey runners this year.

As for Paul VI, Isabella Suarez made it four in the top 10 for the Eagles, running 19:11 for 8th place. Peyton Blake [13th in 19:28] and Morgan Kuzma [15th in 19:33] gave Paul VI six runners in the top 15.

Paul VI averaged 18:52 for its five scorers, 3rd-fastest in course history and fastest prior to sectionals. Haddonfield averaged 18:19 at 2022 South Jersey Group 2 sectionals and 18:51 at 2021 sectionals.

Senior Ashley Doyle became Delran’s first individual winner in 12 years, and sophomore Kamiyah Vergo led Northern Burlington to the team title Wednesday at the BCSL Liberty Division meet at Palmyra Cove Park.

Doyle ran 19:16, becoming Delran’s first winner since Maddie Tattory won the Freedom Division race in 2013 at New Egypt.

Doyle won by 165 meters over Pennsauken sophomore Hope Edwards, who ran 19:55 for 2nd place.

Northern Burlington won its 5th straight title but first since All-America Liliah Gordon graduated. Vergo placed 3rd in 20:30, with three freshman teammates in the top 10. Abigail Leonhardt took 6th in 20:40, Willow McCadden was 8th in 21:30 and Adeline Floyd was 9th in 21:35. They were the top three freshmen in the race.

Junior Abigail Matalie, Northern’s 5th scorer, placed 12th in 21:56. Another freshman, Kelly Coughlin, was 17th in 23:27, and Northern’s 7th runner was sophomore Kiera Dyson in 20th in 23:49.

Northern finished with a 33-45 margin of victory over 2nd-place Pennsauken. Bordentown was 3rd with 73.

Others in the top 10 were Bordentown senior Katherine Kovac in 4th place in 20:38, Pennsauken sophomore Rai’ana Rucker in 5th place in 20:39, Pennsauken junior Natalia Sanchez in 7th place in 21:08 and Bordentown senior Hailey Benedict in 10th place in 21:39.

Five days after winning the Burlington County Open, Cinnaminson senior Jacob Wickersham won the BCSL Liberty Division race, leading five Cinnaminson runners in the top six.

Cinnaminson won its 2nd consecutive division title, outscoring Northern Burlington 18-59, with Medford Tech 3rd with 90 and Bordentown 4th with 95.

That’s the lowest winning score in meet history. Tbe previous low came in 2005, when Moorestown – led by a Ben Leonberg, Eric Holaday, Daniel Reinhart 1-2-3 sweep – won 19-51 over Northern Burlington.

Wickersham ran 16:09 at Palmyra Cove Park, finishing just ahead of junior teammate Edward Abu-Abas, 2nd in 16:10. Northern Burlington senior Jimmy Cataline broke up the Cinnaminson sweep in 3rd place in 16:13, followed by Pirate juniors Ryan Scaricaciottolo 4th in 16:26, Owen Castanheira 5th in 16:40 and Alexander Lonardo 6th in 16:55.

Cinnaminson packed its five scorers in 46 seconds and averaged 16:28 per scorer.

Also in the top 10 were Northern sophomore Trevor Johnston [7th, 16:57], Medford Tech junior Chris Davis [8th, 17:00], Bordentown sophomore Peter Tober [9th, 17:03] and Cinnaminson sophomore Lucas Fried [10th, 17:09].

Others who finished in under 18 minutes: Northern junior Kael Schilling [11th, 17:18], Medford Tech senior Marcos Paulino [12th, 17:20], Cinnaminson freshman Luke Feeley [13th, 17:20], Bordentown junior Nathan Krinsley [14th, 17:20] and Northern Burlington senior Keegan Fitzpatrick [15th, 17:55].

Bucknell sophomore Shaelan McNally from Paul VI placed 6^th out of more than 200 runners Friday at the ECAC Championships in the Bronx.

McNally ran 20:56 over 6,000 meters at Van Cortlandt Park and finished only 36 seconds behind overall winner Tayla Gunton of Iona, who ran 20:20. McNally was Bucknell’s first finisher.

University of Maryland Baltimore County junior Lexi Tepper from Cherry Hill East placed 16^th in 21:41 and was UMBC’s first finisher.

Delaware’s 2^nd and 3^rd finishers were Leah Clear from Camden Catholic and Kadence Dumas, who ran 22:07 and 22:19 and placed 32^nd and 41^st. That’s an all-course 6,000 best for Dumas, whose previous best over any 6K course was 22:48 at Lehigh last October.

St. Joe’s 2^nd finisher was freshman Chloe Care from Ocean City, who ran 22:28, matching her 6,000 best from State College last month.

Lafayette’s 3^rd runner was Anya Kazemi from Bishop Eustace. Kazemi placed 52^nd in 22:29. Ava Severino, a junior from Haddon Heights, was Lafayette’s 3^rd finisher in 68^th place in 22:44. Bucknell sophomore Kerry O’Day ran 22:58 and placed 91^st. LIU’s top finisher was Kaysie Luna, a freshman from Sterling. She ran 23:01

Senior Erik Preisner and juniors Nathan Aschmann and Keenan Neuman swept the first three spots and the Ocean City boys won their 7th straight Cape-Atlantic Conference Championship Tuesday at Egg Harbor Township High School.

Preisner, who won last year on the same course in 15:45, ran 15:32 this year. He’s the first repeat champion since Mainland’s Kevin Antczak in 2018 and 2019. Past results from this meet are incomplete and it appears it wasn’t held from 1983 through 1997, but from all available records Preisner is Ocean City’s first CAL XC repeat winner.

Aschmann was 2nd in 15:40 and Neuman 3rd in 15:57. Junior Michael Romano and sophomore Nevin Millstein were also in Ocean City’s top 5, Romano in 7th place in 16:10 and Millstein 10th in 16:21.

Sophomores Benjamin McCarthy [14th in 16:33] and Hayden Tarves [19th in 16:57] also ran sub-17 for the Red Raiders.

Ocean City topped 2nd-place Egg Harbor 23-59, with Cedar Creek edging Vineland for 3rd, 115-129 and Bridgeton 5th with 132.

Middle Township junior Jamar Mack placed 4th in 16:04 and Cedar Creek senior Sean Martino 5th in 16:08.

Egg Harbor placed its top five in 34 seconds, led by sophomore Liam Aspenberg in 6th in 16:09 and senior Matthew Reed in 8th in 16:12. Cedar Creek senior Vincenzo Vecchio placed 9th in 16:18.

Others under 17 minutes: Bridgeton junior Dylan Benitez Gonzalez [11th, 16:25], Egg Harbor junior Daniel Svec [12th, 16:28], Cedar Creek senior Ryan McCann [13th, 16:32], Bridgeton junior Alex Chavez Santiago [15th, 16:34], Egg Harbor sophomore Timothy Rooney [16th, 16:40], Egg Harbor senior Matthew McDevitt [17th, 16:43] and Vineland junior Maximelio Giardino [18th, 16:48].

Sophomore Riley Tolson, junior Carly Godfrey, junior Lillian Flora and freshman Bella Cera swept the top four spots and the Ocean City girls won their 8th consecutive Cape-Atlantic Conference Championship Tuesday.

Tolson ran an all-course lifetime-best 18:01 over 5,000 meters at Egg Harbor Township High School. Her previous best was 18:16 at Six Flags Wild Safari Invitational in Jackson last month.

Godfrey ran 18:20 in 2nd, Flora 18:35 in 3rd and Cera 18:53 in 4th. Junior Peighton Clemens placed 7th in 19:06.

Sixth runner sophomore Lenna Driscoll placed 9th in 19:25 and 7th runner senior Gabrielle Henry was 15th in 20:06.

Ocean City outscored host EHT 17-51, with Mainland Regional 3rd with 108 points. The Red Raiders have won every meet since 2017. There was no meet in 2020. The last school other than Ocean City to win the CAL meet was Egg Harbor in 2016 by one point over Mainland.

Egg Harbor was led by junior Meghan Johnson in 5th place in 19:03, and Mainland was paced by Cecilia Foreman in 6th in 19:04. Two more EHT runners placed 8th and 10th – senior Devyn Per in 19:23 and junior Addison Lambert in 19:26.

Also under 21 minutes: Vineland junior Olivia Masucci [11th, 19:28], Egg Harbor sophomore Molly Rooney [12th, 19:33], Middle Township senior Olivia Orton [13th, 19:43], Mainland sophomore Ella Mokienko [14th, 20:02], Egg Harbor freshman Corinne Conley [16th, 20:07], Absegami senior Samia Ghazaz [17th, 20:10] and Mainland junior Lauren LaMonaca [18th, 20:29].

Senior Gabriella Pagano from Pope John XXIII placed 7th overall and junior Shannon Stakelbeck from Toms River East and junior Allyson Wernik from Washington Township both finished in the top 50 among nearly 300 runners Saturday and Rowan placed 3rd of 33 schools at the Border Battle in Logan Township.

Pagano ran 21:43 over 6,000 meters at DREAM Park. Stakelbeck ran 22:41 for 40th and Wernik 22:45 in 43rd.

Carnegie-Mellon of Pittsburgh had four of the first seven finishers and won the team title with 32 points with Johns Hopkins of Baltimore 2nd with 127 and Rowan 3rd with 231.

Carnegie-Mellon is 8th in the most recent USTFCCCA NCAA Division 3 poll and Johns Hopkins is 3rd. Rowan is ranked No. 1 in the Metro Region.

Rowan’s 4th and 5th runners were junior Jezena Aponte, a transfer from New Jersey City from Snyder High in Jersey City [83rd in 23:28] and freshman Juliana Sieminski from Delsea [85th in 23:29].

Stockton in 9th place was led by four-time 800 All-America senior Kayla Kass of Bayonne in 38th with a 22:39. Shawnee’s Madelyn Valasek ran 23:00 and was Stockton’s 3rd runner in 61st place.

Clearview’s Abby Waddington, a junior at Boston University, ran a 6,000 all-course PR Friday at the Princeton Fall Classic in West Windsor.

Waddington ran 20:56 and finished 37th out of nearly 300 runners on Princeton’s Meadows course. She was B.U.’s first finisher. Her time is 17:26 5,000 pace for 6,000 meters

Waddington’s previous 6,000 best was a 21:15 last month in a meet at Dartmouth.

La Salle junior Helene Usher from Haddonfield placed 58th in 21:10 and Rider junior Maddie Dischert from Atlantic City placed 98th in 21:38, an all-course PR of her own. Her previous 6K best was 21:40 in November 2023 in a meet at Lehigh.

Also under 22 minutes: Penn State freshman Liliah Gordon from Northern Burlington ran 21:48 and Rutgers junior Carly Nicholson 21:53.

Cinnaminson senior Jacob Wickersham was the overall and Cherokee won its 12th consecutive team title while reting its lead group Friday at the Burlington County Open in Mansfield Township.

Wickersham ran 16:13 over 5,000 meters on the new course at Crystal Lake Park, which is between Rte. 130 and Interstate 295 on the Fieldsboro border.

He’s Cinnaminson’s first county champion since Austin Gabay won his second in a row in 2019.

Wickersham finished 40 meters ahead of Cherokee junior Sean Sooy, who took 2nd in 16:22.

Cherokee placed six in the top 10 and had a 25-second pack for its five scorers. The Chiefs finished with a 26-50 margin over Cinnaminson, with Lenape 3rd with 121 points.

The win was Cherokee’s 25th in the last 31 years. The last team other than Cherokee to win the County Open was Nothern Burlington in 2013, and the last individual winner who wasn’t from Cherokee or Cinnaminson was Northern’s Chris Martin, also in 2013.

Joining Sooy in the top 10 for Cherokee were junior Gavin Danielewicz [3rd in 16:29], junior Maximo Harada [5th in 16:35], senior Dominic Pileri [7th in 16:41], junior Leo Vyvyan [9th in 16:47] and freshman Hamza Salahuddin [10th in 16:54].

Others in the top 10 were Cinnaminson junior Edward Abu-Adas [4th in 16:31], Northern Burlington senior Jimmy Cataline [6th in 16:39] and Cinnaminson junior Ryan Scaricaciottoli [8th in 16:43].

Also under 17:30: Shawnee senior Yanni Ekatomatis [11th, 17:01], Lenape junior Aaron Smith [12th, 17:01], Lenape sophomore Jayden Carn [13th, 17:06], Moorestown sophomore Zander Kane [14th, 17:08], Moorestown junior Ethan Taylor [15th, 17:19], Cinnaminson junior Owen Castanheira [16th, 17:20], Seneca senior Dominic Lera [17th, 17:22], Northern Burlington sophomore Trevor Johnston [18th, 17:22], Medford Tech senior Marcos Paulino [19th, 17:25], Medford Tech junior Chris Davis [20th, 17:27] and Cinnaminson junior Alexander Lonardo [21st, 17:29].

The meet was held at Crystal Lake Park for the first time after leaving Mill Creek Park, which hosted the County Open 35 times from 1981 through 2024 (1981-1993, 2001-2019, 2022-2024).

Senior Andrew Dopkin was the overall winner, and Highland packed its five scorers in the top 13 to win the team title in the Varsity B race Saturday at the NYC XC Festival in the Bronx.

Dopkin ran 13:33 on the historic Van Cortlandt Park 2 ½-mile course and finished 15 meters ahead of Jasper Graham of Hunter College of Manhattan, who placed 2nd in 13:36.

Highland junior Liam Murphy placed 3rd in 13:38, senior Daniel Gee was 9th in 14:23, sophomore Oluwanifemi Fadulu 12th in 14:29 and freshman Richard Lorenz 13th in 14:30. Highland averaged 14:06 per scorer.

Sophomore William Sinn [23rd in 15:04] and freshman Samuel Arbelaez [31st in 15:40] also ran for Highland.

Highland scored 38 points on 1-3-9-12-13 and topped 2nd-place Plainview-Old Bethpage Kennedy High of Plainview, N.Y., 38-60. Highland averaged 14:07.

Highland did not run a full girls team, but senior Lyana Gutierrez placed 2nd in the Varsity Girls race, covering the 2 ½-mile ours 16:57. She finished behind only sophomore Julie Glenz of Long Beach, who won in 16:11.